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Frederick Schult

Dr. Rick Schult is a Supervisory Geophysicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received a B.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 1986. He was an assistant professor in the Geology and Geophysics Department at the University of Minnesota 1985-1989. He worked as a geophysicist in the Treaty Monitoring Directorate at the Air Force Technical Application Center 1990-2003, including as chief of the Research Division 2000-2003. He has worked in AFRL's Nuclear Explosion Monitoring research program since 2003. His technical interests cover the geophysical signals generated by explosions, earthquakes and other seismological sources and how those signals can be used to characterize their sources.